Yolo-Solano County CA Archives Biographies.....Rogers, T. G. 1848 - 
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Author: Tom Gregory

T. G. ROGERS

    As the efficient engineer of the Winters Canning Company Mr. Rogers has
served for the past six years, and by his manliness and progressive spirit has
won many stanch friends in that locality.

    Mr. Rogers was born April 13, 1848, in Tazewell county, Va., where he spent
his youth, receiving his education in the schools of that section, and during
his leisure hours assisted upon the farm of his parents, Gilbert and Lena (Doak)
Rogers, of Virginia, both of English parentage. At the age of eighteen he went
to Harrison county, Mo., where he attended school, and two years later removed
to Council Bluffs, Iowa, where he became night watchman for the Ogden hotel. In
April, 1868, he went to Omaha, Nebr., to accept a position in the shops of the
Union Pacific Railroad Company, and subsequently was transferred to the road as
engineer, running the freight which hauled the rock for the piers of the iron
suspension bridge built over the Missouri river at Omaha in 1869. In 1871 he
resigned his duties and came to California, where for twenty-three years he was
in the employ of McCune & Garnett, farmers, of Dixon, Solano county. Since
settling in Winters in 1897 he has followed the trade of machinist and
stationary engineer. For eleven months he acted as mail carrier for the federal
forces during the Civil war, his experience having been so fraught with danger
and horror that never again would he consent to undergo a similar ordeal.

    Mr. Rogers was united in marriage in May, 1896, with Miss Louise King,  of
Tazewell county, Va., and to  their union five children were born: James H., who
graduated from the Winters high school; Jessie L., a graduate of the San Jose
Normal; Josephine, who is a high school senior; John, and Alma.

    Mr. Rogers is a member of Silveyville Lodge No. 201, F. & A. M., at Dixon,
and as a prominent Democrat maintains an active interest in political
developments. A citizen of practical worth, he is always prompt to lend all the
aid in his power to public enterprises of merit, and is highly esteemed
throughout the community.


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HISTORY OF YOLO COUNTY CALIFORNIA
WITH
Biographical Sketches
OF
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been Identified With Its Growth
and Development From the Early Days to the Present

HISTORY BY
TOM GREGORY
AND OTHER WELL KNOWN WRITERS
ILLUSTRATED COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME

HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA [1913]

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